Jimmy Daly
Recent articles
Strategy
Looking for a Job in Content Marketing? Ask Your...
We speak with a lot of companies who are looking to hire content marketers. We also talk with a lot of content marketers who are looking for new opportunities. These two parties don’t match up...
Jimmy Daly
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7 min read
12/02/19
Strategy
Your Content and Sales Teams Don’t Communicate—and It’s...
Nearly all SaaS companies use content to generate leads, but that’s usually where the collaboration between content and sales ends. The content team has a job to do, the sales team has a job to...
Jimmy Daly
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10 min read
11/18/19
Strategy
Here’s How to Handle a Wildly Successful Article That Makes...
SaaS blogs that derive significant traffic from a single post are at high risk for several frustrating problems. We call these outlier posts “whales.” A whale is a single post that is performing...
Jimmy Daly
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8 min read
09/16/19
Strategy
2019 Content Trends Gleaned from 160+ Sales Calls
There’s a common challenge in the content marketing world that creates some friction between content creators and their managers. The creators are heads-down working on new content while the...
Jimmy Daly
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11 min read
07/22/19
the-blog
Announcing Revive: A Free Tool to Find and Prevent Content...
We are thrilled to announce Revive—our first product. It’s a free tool that finds content decay. You can try it out here. Traffic growth can be measured just like a SaaS company’s MRR:New blog...
Jimmy Daly
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5 min read
07/08/19
Strategy
How to Diagnose and Maintain the Health of a SaaS Blog
All content marketers seem to believe that their site is underperforming. There’s an underlying sense of anxiety about never having enough traffic. At the same time, no one seems to know how much...
Jimmy Daly
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9 min read
07/01/19
Podcasts
How One Viral Blog Post Catapulted Our Monthly Traffic |...
Our teammate Jan-Erik Asplund recently wrote a piece for the Animalz blog that blew up. The piece—BLUF: The Military Standard That Can Make Your Writing More Powerful—trended on Hacker News and...
Content Distribution Channels Explained, with Liz Gottbrecht...
Paid, earned, owned and shared. Our VP of Marketing Devin Bramhall chats with Liz Gottbrecht, VP of Marketing at the influencer marketing platform Mavrck. They explain the nuances of distribution,...
How to Give and Receive Creative Feedback | Episode 21
Devin and Jimmy talk about feedback: how to give it, how to receive and the role it plays in growing a company. At Animalz, we’ve built feedback into our workflow so that every member knows what to...